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Corset.

No. 228,725. Paten-ted )urne 15,1880.

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EVERETT W. BIGELOW, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORSET.

SPECIFIGATIONformng; part of Letters Patent No. 228,725, dated June 15,1880.

Application filed April 1, 1880.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, EVERETT W. BIGELow, ofBoston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Corsets; and I do herebydeclare the same to be described in the following specication andrepresented in the accompanying drawings` of which- Figure 1 isa frontview, Fig. 2 a transverse section, and Fig. 3 a rear View, of the frontportions of a duplex husk-corset having my invention. Figs. 4 and 5 arefront views of the lapping portions of the duplex husk. Fig. 6 is atransverse section of the overlapping or button-hole portion of thehusk, Fig. 7 being a front view, and Fig. 8 an edge view, of one of theintermediate or connecting pieces thereof.

In Letters Patent No. 215,560, dated May 20, 1879, and granted to me, Iclaim the underlapped portion, steel, or busk, provided with buttons, incombination with the overlapping or other portion provided withbutton-holes, arranged next alongside of the busk or huskpocket of suchportion, whereby by so arranging the button-holes the strain on thebuttons while the corset is in wear is borne mainly, if not entirely, bythe outer husk and the cloth saved from being torn away by the Shanks orfastenings of the buttons.

In carrying out my present improvement I construct the overlappingportion of the duplex husk with two parallel steel or husk pockets,arranged close together, and having steels within them and button-holesformed between them, in order that the buttons projecting from theunderlapping portion may be y supported by either or both the steels ina manner to prevent such buttons from wearing or tearing away thebutton-holes while the corset may be in use. Furthermore, in making theoverlapping portion I combine its two buskpocket pieces withintermediate connectionpieces arranged with and sewed to the pocketpieces, as hereinafter described, so as to form button-holes between theseveral connectionpieces and also between the pocket-pieces.

1n the aforesaid drawings, A is the under- 1apping,and B theoverlapping, portion of the duplex husk. The portion A has one pocket,a, in it for the reception of a single steel, b, provided with a rangeof studs or buttons, c, ex-

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tending from it in manner as represented. The overlapping portion B hastwo pockets, d d, arranged in it parallel to each other and a distanceapart a little greater than the width of each of the button-holes f, thesaid buttonholes being arranged and formed between the two pockets, soas to cause the steels thereof, after beinginserted in them, to aid inprevent ing the buttons from straining or tearing out the button-holes,not only when the two parts are huttoned together and the corset may bein wear, but during the process ot' disconnecting the said parts orunbuttoning one from the other. y

In constructing the overlapping portion ot' the duplex busk I compose itofthe two busk- 'pocket portions g 71J and a series of intermediatepieces, 't' t', the latter being arranged at short distances apartthatis, apart at distances corresponding to the lengths ofthe button-holes.These intermediate pieces extend into the pocketpieees and are stitchedor sewed thereto. I usually form each intermediatepiece of a strip ofcloth, of suitable length, sewed together at its two ends,` and foldedat its middle, and I compose the pocket-piece h of a single strip ofcloth, of suitable width, folded lengthwise along its middle and at itstwo opposite edges. The other pocketpiece may be made similar to itsfellow, or of two pieces of cloth laid one upon the other and turned inat those edges next to the fellow pocket-piece. In this way I am enabledto make a pair of steel-receiving pockets with button-holes between themwithout the necessity of working or sewing the edges of the button-holesin the manner as usually practiced when button-holes are made in cloth.

I am aware that it is not new to provide one of the bnttonin g portionsof a corset with steelreceiving independent pockets having a webextending from one to the other, and provided with a series of metalliceyelets to engage with studs projecting from a steel in a pocket ofanother buttoning portion of said corset.

Vith my invention the metallic eyelets are dispensed with, and in theirpla-ce iiexile button-holes are formed in the space or web of clothbetween the two pockets and their studs. In this way the strain of thestuds on the button-holes is borne by one of the steels, and the IOObutton-hole is thereby saved from being torn out by its button, theileXibility of the buttonhole admitting of the steel to take the beering of the stud, which is not the ense when metellie eyelets are employed,such eyelets being very lieble to be pulled ont of the cloth or get outof place While the corset may be in use. One object of my invention isto avoid the use of snoh eyelets and in their platee employ :t leXilelmtton-l1ole,m1dto so supportit that it y cannot readily be Vtorn orinjured either in the process of buttoning;` or nnbnttoning the corsetor while it may be in weer.

I claim- In a duplex husk-corset in which the underlapped portion isprovided with :t steel and buttons or studs projecting; therefrom tooonneet such portion with the overlappin g portion, having buttonliolesarranged between two steel-pockets and their steels, as described, thecombination of the intermediate connectionpieees with the twohusk-pocket pieces to form between them button-holes, as explained.

EVERETT W. BIGELOW.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, W. W. LUNT.

